Gov. Cuomo’s nuclear bailout will hike our electric rates by $964,900,000 over the next two years. That’s an average of $1,321,781 per day going from our pockets to Exelon Corporation, the rich Chicago company that owns the plants. Since it began on April 1, the bailout has cost New Yorkers:

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If you agree we can better spend our hard-earned dollars, tell Cuomo to drop his tax today.

The tax will cost hard working New Yorkers nearly $8 billion dollars. Our money will go to plant owner Exelon, a Chicago-based Fortune 100 company with annual revenues over $34 billion.

The Governor says it’s about preserving jobs and fighting climate change, but we know better. New York’s energy future lies with energy efficiency, smarter grids, solar and wind. These approaches cost less, provide more jobs, and result in healthier communities.

Nuclear energy is costly, dangerous and bad for our health and environment. By joining California in phasing out nuclear power, New York can help lead the nation into a 21st century renewable energy future.

New Yorkers deserve better. Join us, and stop the Cuomo tax.

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Governor Cuomo's plan to hike consumers' utility rates to bail out aging nuclear power plants is the wrong way to go. It's like subsidizing the horse-and-buggy industry while Henry Ford is rolling cars off the assembly line.

- Blair Horner, Executive Director of the New York Public Interest Research Group

A Stanford study evaluated the various nuclear and renewable energy scenarios for New York.

The results were staggering: Cuomo’s plan would cost over $31 billion in total. The alternative option — shutting down the aged nuclear plants and replacing them with wind – would cost $8.4 billion less, generate about 14 million fewer metric tons of CO2, and create more jobs than the Cuomo plan.

Wondering how much the Cuomo Tax will cost you?

Everyone will pay, including individual consumers and families (even those on fixed incomes), businesses, schools, hospitals and local governments. Residential consumers alone will have to pay $2.3 billion more to fund Cuomo’s bailout for failing nuclear plants. And no matter what utility service the ratepayer uses, they still have to pay for Cuomo’s bailout plan – even if the consumer signed up for 100% renewable energy! The Public Utilities Law Project has crunched the numbers by utility here: